Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780515039337 (0515039330)
Publish date: August 1975
Publisher: Pyramid Books
Pages no: 255
Edition language: English
The BasicsA collection of short stories, mainly in a contemporary vein. Each story deals with some transgression or sin and how it impacts the life of the sinner and those around them. From greed to lust to addiction.My ThoughtsThe unfortunate thing here is that these stories don’t entirely hold up ...
A jumble of outrageously egoistic, shamelessly moralistic fables, and self-righteous vignettes of patronizing maliciousness, served up in colored dialectic, jazz jive, pretentious literary allusions, and discordant, thesaurus-vocabulary showboating. I loved it!